FLEXIBLE SOLAR POWER GENERATOR INCLUDING ELECTRICAL PROTECTION AGAINST IMPACT OF HEAVENLY BODY, SPACECRAFT AND SATELLITE INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE SUCH SOLAR POWER GENERATOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flexible solar power generator including an electrical protection against impact of a heavenly body, and to provide a spacecraft and a satellite including at least one such a solar power generator.SOLUTION: A solar power generator includes a flexible support, a solar cell array, an electrically conducting conductor, a blocking diode, and solar cells formed along a string in separate transverse directions. The solar cells are located in the same strings electrically connected in series, each having two opposite end of positive polarity and negative polarity. The ends of positive polarity of each string of a solar cell are connected individually with each blocking diode, via the electrically conducting conductor dedicated to the string. The electrically conducting conductors dedicated to separate strings are independent from each other, and the blocking diodes are located at the proximal end of the solar power generator, on the outside of the solar cell array.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2